In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and fought, triumphed and failed as she looked for him. In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. James has thrown African cultures, mythologies, religions, histories, world-views and topographies into the mighty cauldron of his imagination to create a work of literary magic' New Statesman.From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf, the second book in the Dark Star trilogy, his African Game of Thrones. 'To call this novel original doesn't do justice. This new book will propel James into a new galaxy of literary stardom' Observer 'Complex, lyrical, moving and furiously gripping.
'A game-changing modern fantasy classic' Financial Times And, against this exhilarating backdrop of magic and violence, he explores the fundamentals of truth, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all.īlack Leopard, Red Wolf is the first novel in Marlon James's Dark Star Trilogy. Marlon James weaves a tapestry of breathtaking adventure through a world at once ancient and startlingly modern. Each of these companions is stranger and more dangerous than the last, from a giant to a witch to a shape-shifting Leopard, and each has secrets of their own.Īs the mismatched gang follow the boy's scent from perfumed citadels to infested rivers to the enchanted darklands and beyond, set upon at every turn by creatures intent on destroying them, Tracker starts to wonder: who really is this mysterious boy? Why do so many people want to stop him being found? And, most important of all, who is telling the truth and who is lying?
But he breaks his own rule when, hired to find a lost child, he finds himself part of a group of hunters all searching for the same boy. Tracker is a hunter, known throughout the thirteen kingdoms as one who has a nose - and he always works alone. In this stunning follow-up to his Man Booker-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James draws on a rich tradition of African mythology, fantasy and history to imagine an ancient world, a lost child, an extraordinary hunter, and a mystery with many answers. I cannot wait for the next installment' Neil Gaiman A dangerous, hallucinatory, ancient Africa, which becomes a fantasy world as well-realized as anything Tolkien made, with language as powerful as Angela Carter's. Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until I read it.
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